"Hmm. Lovely it could still be, though I'm not sure my presence would be welcomed. My kind aren't seen with accepting eyes in my village."
But that was something she'd already accepted. There was also nothing to go back to her village for. Her family had made it abundantly clear that they would not be coming to greet her with open arms. It had been at least a few decades since she'd last tried to visit them. She'd learned that family was not always through blood. A hard lesson but one she was determined to never forget.
Yes. She'd become acquainted with the modern technology here at the hotel. To think that in the future, there were cities capable of floating in the sky, how wonderous! "That would be quite something to see. You must such a wondrous place." Xian chuckled. "People do not need much to think they are gods. There will always be those who think they are better and love to prove so. I'm grateful you don't seem afflicted with the curse of such arrogance. It would have made you quite boring." And he was proving to be anything but. So far.
"Octane," she pronounced again with an apologetic smile. "Magic does not make one more important than another. I knew many men and women who were without it that could still accomplish and do wonderful things, just as I knew some with magic who ...were quite terrible." The actions she had taken in her own life with the power she had been given had not always been good but she didn't think that needed to be shared with a new friend. "Is magic something you wish to have?"